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adulescentulus

adulescentulus · m

a very young man

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Where it lives

Cato 1 · 23.36/10k
Hamilcar 1 · 19.34/10k
Timotheus 1 · 15.36/10k
Pelopidas 1 · 14.04/10k
Pausanias 1 · 11.34/10k
Commentariolum Petitionis 4 · 9.21/10k
Agesilaus 1 · 7.2/10k
Epaminondas 1 · 5.99/10k
Domitianus 2 · 5.81/10k
Atticus 2 · 5.66/10k
Eumenes 1 · 4.37/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 4 · 4.3/10k

Densest 12 of 78 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ădŭlescentŭlus — Lewis & Short

ădŭlescentŭlus (not ădŏl-), i, m.dim.id.,

I a very young man, = neani/skos (when 27 years old, Cicero calls himself adulescentulus, Or. 30; cf. Gell. 15, 28, and Quint. 12, 6. So Sall. C. 49 calls Cæsar adulescentulus, although he was then 33, or perhaps 35 years old): neque admodum adulescentulust, Naev. Com. Rel. p. 11 Rib.; id. ib. p. 29: Rhodius adulescentulus, Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 33: modestissimus, Cic. Planc. 11; Vulg. Gen. 4, 23: adulescentulus et virgo, ib. Ezech. 9, 6.—Also, a young soldier, a recruit, Cic. Rep. 1, 15 B.; cf. Nep. Paus. 4 and Ham. 1. Sometimes it indicates contempt: Proveniebant oratores novi, stulti adulescentuli, Naev. ap. Cic. Sen. 6, 20: imberbis adulescentulus, Cic. Dom. 14.

Where it came from

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